Solar and wind farms are proliferating and increasingly taking up land worldwide, prompting criticism from rural communities and environmentalists. Solutions range from growing crops or grazing livestock under PV panels to putting floating solar farms on lakes and reservoirs. By Fred Pearce • February 20, 2025
Farmland preservation groups believe 83 percent of new solar installations will come from farm and ranch lands with half of these installations on the richest land for food and crops. Solar energy is depleting farmlands of their rich soils in the U.S. Midwest.
The first two perspectives fit into the FEW nexus language of “trade-offs” and “synergies” respectively, arguing that solar energy development either conflicts with agricultural land use and food security or, alternatively, that the two land uses can be co-located appropriately to create agrivoltaic systems.
But this breakneck effort is triggering land disputes across the world’s most populous nation, highlighting the difficulty of building out capacity in fast-growing, crowded and power-hungry developing countries. The raid on Tata’s solar project is just one example of the stumbling blocks in India’s energy transition.
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Solar and wind farms are proliferating and increasingly taking up land worldwide, prompting criticism from rural communities and environmentalists. Solutions range from …
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Key Takeaways Unclear easement terms often cause conflicts between solar developers and landowners over agricultural land use and property rights. Solar panels can reduce adjacent …
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Solar and wind farms generate controversy but occupy a sliver of rural land Previous studies identified at least 1,800 local zoning restrictions on wind projects as of 2021, …
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The third perspective asserts that solar energy development can be a compromise. Advocates of this perspective argue that solar energy development can support farmland …
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Solar and wind farms are proliferating and increasingly taking up land worldwide, prompting criticism from rural communities and environmentalists. Solutions range from …
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